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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: WD driver serendipity
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>at least 10% on my 486DX-40 system.  Thanks for the great work!  If 32-bit
>and multi-block transfers don't cause problems, I hope they will be enabled
>by default in 2.1 since I suspect not everyone is aware of them.  Has

They do cause problems.

>multi-block transfer been available on ST506 disk controllers all along?
>If so, has it taken that long (after IDE disks were introduced) for the BIOS
>manufacturers to support this capability?

I think it's mainly an ESDI/IDE feature.  My 1990-1992 ESDI drives reported
that they didn't supporte it.

Bruce